Do you still come across new words in your reading?

For me, sometimes they are words that i have more or less understood, but finally looked up for a precise meaning...
i always understood CK's phrase "going pear shaped" , and never questioned it. but i never heard it, or saw it in print till he wrote it..but i didn't ask him exactly what it meant either.. i just let it slide..

I though maybe this week we could each add one or two (or more!) of the new words we have come across in the past week (month? year?)

ecdysis--
and when i looked it up, i found ecdysist! --I bet half the people coming to a Wordapalooza wouldn't mind it we had an ecdysist there!

and

philumentis-- when philander came up, i though about philadelphia, and the oricle at delphi, and wondered what that had to do with brotherly love.. but i was all wrong.. its phila + adelphos (which is brotherly..) delphi is not defined, and seems to be just a homonym! and then on the same page found philumentis, and being helio centric, was amazed to find a word just for my lovers! NOT!

but Helen is 'light" (coming from the sam root as Helio, (sun) but is most definately not "sunny" !) various dictionaries have related it to lighthouse, or lamps, bright light.. and someone who loves illumenations, or light-- surely, it means they love me!

i have some others.. do you have any?


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